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FARM NOTES. Now plan a good garden. bought your clover seed yet? Send for needed plow-irons now, so as to be ready. Remedies for San Jose scale are now coniined largely to winter appli cations. A farmer should use common sense In spreading manure, just as in any other operation. Straw is of practically no value to feed to cows or other animals that are making flesh. The desire to earn money seems to be just at this moment the uppermost Impulse in the mind among women. Most soils, naturally, well drained, seem to be suitable for alfalfa, pro vided their physical condition is good. There is a man who operates a ser pent farm in Texas for the hides which are tanned into belts, purses, i*c. Ten cents’ worth of preservative treatment will often extend the life of a fence/ post from 2 to nearly 20 years. broom corn is bringing prices this year that will cause many a south western farmer to wish he had plant ed more or less acreage. On the average, the hay produced on an acre of land in five years will contain lfi.6 per cent of protein, or an equivalent of 2.65 per cent, of nitro gen. Pasturing the rye will cause it to "stool,” and thus the crop is im proved—ipaking a gain in two ways. Do not allow it to be eaten too closely. Seed corn, to be properly dried, should be placed in a warm, dry, well ventilated room where there is an even temperature which does not go below 35 degrees. BRACING FENCE GATE POSTS Very Effective Way, and One That Will Not Require Much Extra Material Shown. The posts of a gate placed in a straight line of wire fence requires just as much bracing as a corner post. A very effective way, and one that No Wood Braces Are Used. will not require much extra material, Is shown in the accompanying sketch, writes Vincent Whitman, in Popular Mechanics. The two posts of the gate will need to be extra long and well set in the ground. The tops of the posts are then tied with wire so as to hold them in a parallel position with the right width between for the gate. The fence wires are twisted tight and held to the posts with staples. » The Man for the Farm. The ideal hired man on the farm Is one who farms because he is in love with the work, and who studies the best methods of agriculture* both by observation and books and papers, and who prefers the cleanly, orderly and healthy occupation of farm life to the squalid and disturbing influence of the city. The hired man who receives from $30 to $40 per month and his board the year around, is better off financial ly and more often becomes independ ent than many city workmen whose wages are three times as much. Care of Farm Implements. Are your hay tools lying out in the field where you used them last? And that binder—isn’t it still standing out in the oat field right where you un hitched from it when the last bundle was hound? Do you always leave your plows, cultivators and harrows scat tered around the farm that way dur ing the winter? Broken handles and levers and rust galore will be your portion when you run them out for use in the spring. All things consid ered, shed room is mighty cheap. Plows from Canada. According to Consul General James W. Ragsdale of Halifax, a Canadian plow company has, during the past few months shipped from Brantford, Ont., eight carloads of traction plows to the United States and has received definite specifications for 75 carloads more for shipment before April 1. This is probably the first time that a Canadian manufacturer in this line has successfully entered the United States market. Big Corn Crop. In a corn-growing contest in North Carolina 227 bushels were grown on one acre. It is believed that this breaks official records In this coun try. fKMKMIK HORTICULTURAL NOTES. Another batch of cyclamens should j be sown to follow the August sown plants. Keep freesias quite cool, but water 1 freely and let them have all the light ; possible. Turn up all dirty land roughly to ex pose the weed roots to frost and re peat this at intervals. Look over caladium, gloxinia and be- i goula bulbs and do not let them get too dry or they will shrivel. Put out the new orchard just as j soon as winter breaks, but be careful that the roots do not freeze. An acre of apple trees will pay bet-! ter than an acre of corn and does not require one-fourth as much work. Cold fruit tastes better than fruit that has been kept in a warm room.' This is particularly true of grapes. When pruning apple trees cut the limbs as near the trunk as possible, so the wound may heal over quickly. Always cook apples in earthen or granite ware utensils and use silver, granite or wooden spoons for stirring. Keep the propagating cases and benches full, as many things can be multiplied at this season, saving room later. When poor fruit is produced there Is a reason. Aim to tied it by a careful study of the trees and condi tions. Tree planting must not go on In frosty weather, but the preparation of the quarters for trees need not be delayed. A grtii e vine can be purchased tor ten cents which may produce several bushels of fruit each year for one hun dred years. Fruit will keep better in a barn cellar than in a house cellar, for the house cellar is warmed by the heated rooms above, Preparing stakes and labels and siding up roots of flowers or vege tables in storage makes good work for bad weather. CARING FOR THE STRAWBERRY; Plant Will Adapt Itself to Almost Any Garden Soil, But Rich, Moist Loam Is Best. The strawberry will adapt itself to almost any good garden soil, but a rich, moist and fairly heavy loam is A Profitable Variety. best. Anything approaching a light, gravelly, shallow soil is useless; but where such exists it can be improved by the addition of clayey soil and by a goodly portion of cow manure or well rotted horse manure. While the strawberry delights in a rather moist soil, yet it is essential that water should be drained off and not allowed to remain on the surface. Select good plants. There is no economy in planting cheap or inferior stock. It pays to plant the best. There are a great many varieties of strawberries, but we must not be in cautious, for many plants are lost each year by amateurs who neglect to fol low this very precaution. I There is a difference of opinion re garding the be^t method ot' growing the plants—whether to the hill or sin gle plant system, or to the hedge row, allowing four or six new runners to become established. We have tried both methods, and with the single plant or hill system we secured a smaller amount of, berries, but much larger In size as well as more nearly uniform In size than those secured from the hedge row. Some growers are inclined to the hill system for the small bed in the home garden on account of the ease of cultivation and keeping the bed absolutely free from weeds and grass and giving easy ac cess to the plants for applying mulch : about them. Following this method all runners should be cut off as soon as they ap pear, as they will weaken the main plant. Keep the bed free from grass and weeds; cultivate the soil fre quently, but do not stir the soil near the crowns, as this would injure the growth of the plant. Storing Ec'neverias. Store echeverias in any shed- -or building from which severe frost is excluded. Sun shining on the plants after freezing does more harm to them than the actual frost. Sowing of Acorns. Regarding the sowing of acorns for esters sow them in narrow beds, i broadcast, transplanting them when two years old. I PROGRESS OF WHITE RIBBON Unprecedented Interest Taken in Coming World's Convention to Be Held at Glasgow. The latest news in world W. C. T. I7, circles shows encouraging prog ress being made in England, Scot land, Canada. France, Norway, ltd glum, Germany, Russia, Palestine, Cape Colony. India, Ceylon, Japan, Australia and tlie United States. Preliminary announcement of the plans for the world's \V. C. T. I7, con vention, to be held at Glasgow, Scot land, June 4-11. IS110, are already be ing issued ami indicate a gathering of Unprecedented interest in White Rib bon circles. One of the notable fea tures of the convention will be a world-wide exhibition of literature to illustrate the international work of, the union along that line. At a convention held at the borne of tlie president of tlie National W., C. T. ft. of France, plans wore re cently made to organize new unions j in many centers throughout that ; country. Miss Agnes Slack lias been J addressing various gatherings of French women to this end in Paris and other cities. Tolling of the wide sweep ol tem poranre in her own and other lands, President Lillian M. N. Stevens, of the j World society, states: "Every sane and well informed per- j son knows that the temperance move ment is important and far reaching: j even its enemies will admit this. The ' term ‘temperance people,’ as used in connection with the present day movement, is understood to mean those who advocate total abstinence for the state and nation. The World’s j Woman's Christian Temperance union, founded by Miss Frances R Willard, with its banner set up in more than fifty nations of the world—a society which is neither sectarian nor partisan —is composed of this kind of temper ance people. "We have great reason to rejoice. Inasmuch as there is today more total abstinence sentiment than ever be fore. No sane total abstainer will say he is sorry he has not been u drinker. "My home has always been in the state of Maine, and I elaim that I am qualified to testify regarding the value of temperance laws to a state, espe cially to the homes of liie state; that I am competent to make comparisons, because 1 have visited every state and studied the practical effects of license law's—high license, low license, segre gation, and the dispensary, or Gothen burg, system and I know that, from a temperance standpoint, the law is the best law ever enacted to apply to the liquor traffic. "I am well aware of the stories re garding the failure of the law in Maine, which have been reported by such men as Mr. Thompson of New Zealand, employed by the liquor trade of his country; Mr. Snyder of Ohio, employed by the brewers in this coun try, and Mayor Hose of Milwaukee, who honestly represents tlie brewers of his city. "The majority of the Maine people have for half a hundred years stood firmly for the measure against the ef forts of all liquordom for its over throw. The law has also had the com mendation of outsiders, or of visitors to the state, who are capable of judging, and who are not prejudiced by connection with the liquor trade or by personal, habitual use of strong drink. "Recently Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, tile great evangelist, after having been in Portlar d about three weeks, before an audience of 4,000 men as sembled in the Portland Auditorium, in vigorous terms defended the total abstinence law as he had seen it. His statement was received with loud and long applause by the whole vast as sembly. "Temperance does reduce poverty, delinquency, dependency and crime; prohibition does reduce the amount of liquor sold and consumed; prohibi tion tremendously hurts the liquor trade, and this Is the reason why pro hibition is always opposed by the dis tiller, the brewer, the liquor seller and their emissaries.” Dr. Holmes’ Temperance Testimony. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once gave telling testimony of his sympa thy with the advocates of temperance and the cause. He said: "I took $250 instead of $100, rent during the pres ent year, for a store on Long Wharf, which 1 managed for my mother, rath er than let it, like many of those about it, for a grocery, knowing that rum would be retailed from it. I mention this because it implies that 1 am not wholly insensible to the sig nficance of this particular reform, and that, if needs be, I can make some little sacrifice for it.” Russia's State Monopoly. The following report issued from Russia presents a striking comment on the possibilities of state-sold al cohol: "A Pan-Russian anti-alcoholic con gress was recently summoned and was duly opened with much ceremony. A police decree was issued simul taneously forbid’ding all speeches against the state monopoly of the spirit shops and of the sale of vodka. The congress was thus unable to con tinue.” METHOD OF CURING CLOVER V _ Practice of Maine Agricultural Experi ment Station in Caring for Hay Crop with Little Waste, iRY PROF. G. \Y. GOWEt.L) The practice of the Maine agricul tural experiment station in curing clover is to mow it when there is a prospect of dry weather for a couple of days and when it is free from water or dew and let it lie as cut that day, or, if it has wilted somewhat on the surface, turn it by hand or tedder just before night. If not turned the first afternoon It is turned or teddered the second day add again toward noon. In the afternoon of the second day ; It Is put into cocks about live feet high. Ordinarily It is wilted at this time, but if the weather has turned dark or the clover !s very heavy, por- j tlons of it are liable to he unwilled,! in which case the cocks are made smaller. The cocks are made by using small forkfuls flattened out so that it will come off in layers when handled again i As it cures it settles, and unless the cocks are high in proportion to their ' width they will flatten out, which is wrong. The walls are kept perpendicular three-fourths of Hie way up and then gradually drawn in. Much time need not be consumed in making the bunches, as it is quickly done. One condition is imperative—the clover must go into the cock free from rain or dew. It can he safely cocked when containing lots of water from its own juices, but not when even a little moist from water. We allow it to stand in cocks throe or four days, or longer, before disturb ing it. On a day in which the alt- Is dry we open up the hunches so that | tin air can draw through them, and usually after about two hours’ expo sure the hay ts ready to draw to the barn. It. is not necessary to tear It apart and wear it out, as it readily parts with Its own moisture, which is chiefly near the renter and the bot tom of the hunches. If rain falls while the clover Is In the hunch it does not wet it deeply after the hunches have been made for a few hours. When rain comes we let the bunches alone and the water dries out o.f itself when sound weather comes again. To successfully cure clover or other fodder plants in this way it Is essen tial to let tlie cocks alone and allow them to cure and dry out undisturbed. Clover thus cured and aired out just before putting into the barn does not burn in the mow or come out dusty, in midwinter a handful from the mow can be twisted into a knot without breaking the stocks or wringing off the leaves. We also cure green oats and peas in the same way. Out of 32 tons i weighed into the barn one year and i fed out in winter all of the oats made i from it by the cattle were collected I and saved in one stack. This method of curing succeeds in ordinary weather. Of course heavy, prolonged rains mean defeat to thin or any system unless the bunches are covered with cloth or fiber caps. TELEPHONE WIRES ON TREES How They May Be Attached Without Doing Injury and Danger of Breaking Wires Obviated. (By J. K. BIUDGMAN.) The accompanying illustration shows how telephone wires may he so attached to trees that the grow ing tree is not injured, and the very Wire Attached to Tree. common danger of breaking the wires through the swaying of the trees dur ing the winds, is obviated. A T-hinge, ten or 12 inch size, is used for the purpose. Corn Silage. Corn silage Is about the cheapest and most efficient to supplement the winter rations for dairy and beef cat tle, horses, calves and sheep. It is cheaper to handle the corn crop in the form of silage than any other way. And should there be another summer ; of little rain the well-stocked silo fur nishes succulent green feed and 1 comes as a great relief to the husk ; band man. Crops for Cutover Lands. i Observations of the sandy pine cut over lands in Michigan, Wisconsin and Montana have been continued by j the department of agriculture and work begun In the growing of hairy vetch as a seed and forage crop. The light, sandy soils of the north prom ise to be well adapted to this crop. Wages for Farm Workmen. Government reports show that the average prices paid farm workmen have risen from an average of $10.43 per month in 1870 to $17 in 1906. The next census is expected to show a very much larger increase. DWARF PEARS IN MUCH FAVOR Eastern Orchnrdlsts Report Them as Profitable and Trees Bear for Several Years. (UY NV. l’ARDWK OV’ CODORADO AQ KKTI.TI'IUL CODDKUK.) Dwarf pear trees have been in much favor with eastern orchnl'distB for many years, and many large and prof liable orchards are of this kind. Many of them are profitable and the trees are in good condition after having been planted 50 years. This does not bear out the common notion that dwarf trees are short lived. Then, dwarfing induces early bearing, anil Dwarf Pears, with pears In particular, extra size and quality are secured because of the greater ease with which small trees may be pruned, thinned and ■ prayed. There Is no mystery connected with the dwarfing of trees. Scions of standard varieties are grafted or budded on small growing species with in the family, or upon dwarf forms of the same species, in tiie case of pears tile stock used is the quince. The quince Is slow growing and seldom at tains a height of more than 12 feet; usually less. Rome varieties of pears will not unite with the quince, so what, is known ns "double working” Is re sorted to. This consists first tn graft ing a pear variety which is known to unite with the quince, such as the Vic ar; then, when this has attained suf ficient size, again grafting to the de sired kind. Dwarf pears should he planted deep er than standards. Dwarf pears j should not he allowed to attain a height greater than 12 feet, else the end sought In planting them will be defeated. Severe pruning must usual ly be practiced, often as much as one- j “half to two thirds of Riseason's growth must: he removed, especially during j the early life of the tree. Hy careful j training the top may he spread so that a comparatively large amount of j hearing surface Is secured. Dwarf | pears are often planted as close us ; ten feet apart each way, making 436 trees to the acre. At this distance, the trees will be too close together; 1.5 feet away each way, or lit:! trees to the acre, would no doubt he prefer 1 able. , UNCLE SAM’S PRIZE APPLE I i One Shown at Spokane Measured Seventeen and One-Half Inches in Circumference. . •_ The apple which took the prize, at the Spokane apple khow measured 17 Vfe Inches In < ircumfwencc nn'l weighed 31 enures. The picture will give some Idea of its size, as the coin leaning against H is a half dollar. This apple has been cased In bronze. Uncle Sam’s Prize Apple. thickly plated with gold and given to the exhibitor as his prize. More than five million apples were exhibited and the prizes amounted to $35,000. v The displays sold at high prices and were distributed through the United States for exhibition purposes, sometimes being sent to London, Her : lin and Paris. Tree Grows a Needle. It take all kinds of trees to make a world, and some 01' them are very 1 curious. The Mexican maguay tree j is said to furnish a needle and thread all ready for use. At the tip of each dark green leaf is a slender thorn needle that must be carefully drawn from its sheath; at the same time it slowly unwinds fiber attached to the i thorn, and capable of being drawn out 1 to a great length. Work for Frosty Weather. Manure teaming, breaking up land for the frost to penetrate, burning up rubbish and screening ashes for vari ous uses are all good, healthy work for frosty weather. i IN MODERN SOCIETY PICTURE THAT REALLY IS NOT GREATLY OVERDRAWN, Incident That Would Act as a Sug gestion for an Up-to-Date Novel, Though the Ending Is Unconventional. The hero and heroine are married and have been for years. All is lovely and proper. Moth despise each other and spend their time motoring, planing, flirting and at tending house parties. The heroine Is very beautiful. The hero, her husband, had forgotten this. In fact, not having seen Ills wife much for several years, except in a casual way, he Is astonished when he meets her at a week end party. She Is more beautiful than ever, having just been skinned by 'a beauty specialist She wears two bushels of the latest style of hair, and her hus band fails to recognize her at all He, on the other band, has fallen out of Ills aeroplane and lias ex changed his Human nose for a Gre chin She fails also to recognize him. The two are mutually attracted. They spend much time in each oth er's company, and at 2:30 on the fol lowing afternoon fall in love with a thud. "Will you be mine?" he asks her. "Surest thing you know," she re plies. "As soon as 1 can get a di vorce.” "Darling." the enraptured husband i-rlea, "What is your name?" She tells him. "Heavens!" he cried, 'You are my wife!" She faints He clasps iter in liis inns and revives her. Then, hand in hand, they talk over the terrible situ itlon. "We must conceal our love," the liusb'and declares, "if it is discovered that we are in love we will tie dis graced forever." Is there no other way?" the wife Fisks miserably. "No," said liie husband sternly. "If it was known that 1 was in love with my wife and you with your husband, what would society say?” "Stop!" cried flic wife "Do you love me enough to do a great thing for me?" “I do," declared the husband. "Then let us leave society and stay married," said the wife, turning pale, A minute elapses in which the read er is supposed to read the advertise ments in the back of the book. Then the husband clasps her In ills arms. "I will!” he said. Finis.—Literary Magazine. MAN TO BE THE SERVANT Women Sole Owners and Rulers of t Corner of Australia—Promises to Be Success. Australians in New York have b»ei Interested or amused, according to in dividual bent, at news and stories tha have been circulated lately amenj them from the great island continen in the Pacific, says the New York Su; These have to do with the mo' ment among women of the bust commonwealth to take theme * apart from the rule of inan. The edict against man spoken, and spoke" c * ,e , , .. . •* at loud, in t voice of the )• ,.-i, ... ... . ,, . , >ag>Sdt Womans Horn holders ler . , . , , , ith |r St*-, a league that bristl >*Vp<'«'dcnce. The Kiigli .! 0111 +* s Householders’ league has 1 r’ s*t\ from the western state govei lAcnt of Australia a tract of land th is to he all its own, all and sob woman’s own. The land is an I mense tract at Wilson s Inlet, and to be used for the establishment of (arm colony on a large scale. T leaders and founders of the mot ment, which It is declared is now active working order, are Mrs. Crool principal of the Woman’s Agrlcultui college In Worcestershire, Englan Mrs. Emily Crawford and .\#Iss Ilet Sawyer, M. D. "No prohibition state," say t proud Australian women, “was ever rigidly guarded from its arch enei as this settlement will be from t machination of the ‘thing that known as man.’ ” l * he Australian newspapers say th each woman buyer Is obliged to si a clause In her title deed of ownersb so phrased as to prevent any futu selling of the land to any male. ] man Is to be permitted to own sto or at any time "directly or Indirect to hold office” In this great agric tural enterprise of emancipated wo en. The lenders, It Is said, have shot the possession of a keen practical e and mind, for the land they ha chosen Is out of the way, yet rich, a a fine place for grazing and also 1 breeding cattle. The stories say that all the capl’ required for the present expendltu'i lias been subscribed and that 14 bon steads are already occupied. $ Foundations# for Fortunes^ “.“y Are right here in the adtertising columns of this paper. If what you’re selling has merit ADVERTISE IT. An ad. will sell it fi*r you. I* *.MV. ■ ... > W M I \